In "A Most Wanted Man," a grim German intelligence agent played by Philip Seymour Hoffman zeros in on a Chechen whom he believes he can link to terrorist cells.
"We travel to many of these countries and we meet with the people on the ground and it's almost all the time, what we hear and see on the ground when we talk to the folks that are actually doing the work, is grimmer than the intelligence reports," Nunes said on CNN's "State of the Union".
The grim tone of the new intelligence assessments was first reported by Knight Ridder newspapers in articles that appeared Monday in The Miami Herald and elsewhere.
described a "grim situation" overall, according to an intelligence officer's private briefing for NATO ambassadors.
A disused brick factory, codenamed Cobalt in the report by the Senate's intelligence committee, was particularly grim.
During his own question-and-answer session at the forum, James Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, delivered a similarly grim assessment.
(Basketball rewards athletic excellence and intelligence of another kind the grim determination and will to prevail we call dint, and which Michael Jordan personified and soccer situational intelligence, at a very slow walk).
Two movies that could not be more formally, narratively or commercially dissimilar both confronted the grim legacy of colonialism with enormous intelligence and imagination.
